Volume 2

The student's book of cutaneous medicine and diseases of the skin / by Erasmus Wilson.

Date:
1864-1865
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The student's book of cutaneous medicine and diseases of the skin / by Erasmus Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    1. Dermal affections, 2. Epidermal affections, 3. Follicular affections, 4. Traumatic affections. The dermal affections, including,— a. Diseases of general structure, b. Diseases of special structure, c. Diseases of function, d. Diseases of diathesis, e. Diseases of blood-poisoning. It may be objected critically that there is a want of unity in the clinical classification ; but as unity of arrange¬ ment of cutaneous diseases is neither possible nor practical, the sooner that objection be waived the better; and the classification is none the worse in our opinion because four of the eight groups are founded on a physiological, three on an etiological, and one on a pathological basis. In the class-room or by the bedside we believe that the clinical classification will not be found wanting in its adaptability to the wants of the student and of the practitioner.